Zhailaut, a Wookiee of the male gender, resided in the settlement of Kachirho situated on Kashyyyk during the era of the Galactic Civil War, maintaining a casual connection with a Wookiee resistance group. In the year 1 ABY, Zhailaut tasked a spacer, along with the Bothan named Gursan Bryes, with the assassination of Cyssc Blackscale, a Trandoshan involved in slavery.
Zhailaut was featured as a non-player character within the video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game. This game was created by Sony and released to the public by LucasArts, before its servers were shut down on December 15, 2011.